There are:
- 24 hours in every day
- 168 hours in every week
- 8,760 hours in every year
If you and your child attend every Sunday worship service without missing, that’s 52 hours each year in a purposeful worship experience. If you add on a mid-week Bible study or youth group experience, that adds another 52 hours for a total of 104 hours each year in dedicated Bible study, worship, and fellowship. This equals approximately 1.2% of a year’s hours spent in Christian training.
If you eliminate the hours per year that a student spends sleeping and in school, you are left with approximately 57% of a year’s hours available for training. How many of those hours do you use to train your child to be a follower of Jesus Christ?
Want to try a training tool? List the number of hours each week spent on:
- Your child’s travel time to and from practice _____
- Their hours at practice _____
- Their hours on the computer or TV _____
- Their hours in Christian training (excluding the 1.2% at church) _____
Did the hours in Christian mentoring or discipleship outweigh any of the others? If we aren’t careful, we may be unintentionally training our kids to ignore Christ because there are other “more important” activities to attend.
Consider these two quotes:
“The priorities of our life get the hours of our life.”
“Faith isn’t lost so much at church as it is in the home.”
Are we spending the hours to develop better Christians, or is our focus on something else?
